Field-Map Data Collector

In this chapter:

• Point layer
• Adding points
• Adding a point by laser
• Adding a point by laser using reverse measurement
• Adding a point by GPS
• Adding a point by pen
• Adding a point using the keyboard
• Importing points
• Adding a point by X, Y, Z Polar or Carthesian co-ordinates
• Adding/Editing Z co-ordinates (altitude)
• Copying a point to another layer
• Get attribute values from points to polygons / polygons to centroids
• Creating a grid of points
• Creating a buffer around points
• Deleting points
• Moving points
• Range triangulation
• Shift map labels of point, trees or centroids and create a connection line
• Rotate a point/tree/centroid label
• Switch off(on) an individual points(s)/tree(s)/centroid(s) label(s)
• Check close points of lines

Points are one of the basic types of geographic entities. Each point is defined by X,Y and optionally Z co-ordinates. Points are mostly used for objects that have small dimensions and can be simplified into points. Sometimes these objects have no dimensions at all (e.g. middle of research area, observation points, etc.) 

Points, as any other entities, may contain a number of attributes. These attributes are displayed and may be edited in the “form” of each particular point layer.